Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of January 2010)

How was your weekend? Did the New Year bring you any good birds? Don’t be shy… tell us about your best bird!

My favorite birds of the weekend were the Ravens from Baltimore who inflicted a great unkindness on the New England Patriots. The Ravens join the incredibly explosive Arizona Cardinals as the only two bird-named teams to advance in the NFL playoffs. Corey’s best bird was an actual avian, a Green-winged Teal in Cold Spring Harbor. Charlie is thinking of distant birds, which sometimes keeps him from enjoying his local ones.

What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed in the comments section. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, we invite you to include the link in your comment.

Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but he's also a traveler who fully expects to see every bird in the world. Besides founding 10,000 Birds, Mike has also created a number of other entertaining but now extirpated nature blog resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network and I and the Bird.

Would you believe a mourning dove? That should tell you about the birds in Michigan this weekend. Of course, since I was hunkered down inside myself, I can hardly blame them for doing the same. If only it got warmer more quickly as the days lengthen.